Hello all - here's a quick message to inform you that yes, we are coming out of the usual Tuesday maintenance outage at the moment, but in less than two hours I'll be bringing everything down again for a planned lab-wide power outage to make repairs after the short circuit that clobbered several buildings two weeks ago. This planned outage will last roughly two days. I'll try to bring a few things up here and there (like the web site just inform people what's going on) on generator power if possible, but simply expect everything to be off and unreachable for about 48 hours starting about 90 minutes from the posting of this message.

Also I'll note that yes, bruno (the upload server) had a garden variety kernel choke on Saturday morning. I was able to kick it with Dan's help (he ultimately came up to the lab himself to power cycle the machine). Usual drill around here.

- Matt-- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person
-- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude

Hello all - here's a quick message to inform you that yes, we are coming out of the usual Tuesday maintenance outage at the moment, but in less than two hours I'll be bringing everything down again for a planned lab-wide power outage to make repairs after the short circuit that clobbered several buildings two weeks ago. This planned outage will last roughly two days. I'll try to bring a few things up here and there (like the web site just inform people what's going on) on generator power if possible, but simply expect everything to be off and unreachable for about 48 hours starting about 90 minutes from the posting of this message.

Also I'll note that yes, bruno (the upload server) had a garden variety kernel choke on Saturday morning. I was able to kick it with Dan's help (he ultimately came up to the lab himself to power cycle the machine). Usual drill around here.

- Matt

Thanks for telling us Matt. No problems for me, with any outage that lasts a couple of days. That's what a reasonably sized cache is made for. My computers will keep on crunching.

See you on the other side of the outage.Too much hormone treated meat.
Too much Monsanto veggies.
Too old and outdated constitution.
A crazy problem, as you Yanks use to say......There is no God, and God never existed.

Only found out about this after the fact. I take it there was no possibility of an earlier warning? Appreciate the two-hours notice, nonetheless.

Just wondering... would this sort of notice be suited to the 'Notices' section in BOINC? I notice Einstein@Home seems to have its news updates tied to it, but SETI@home does not - I have to check the S@h site manually. Not a big deal, but for outage notices like this one, it might have helped.

Either way, thanks to everyone in the team for their efforts.Soli Deo Gloria

I would like to record my thanks to Matt and the team for their dedication to the project. I know pretty much what goes on behind the scenes to keep Seti@Home up and running, which just recently came to the fore. There will always be 1/2 a dozen or so who want to have a moan, but those of us in the majority sincerely appreciate being kept in the loop, in the best way that they can.Those are my principles, and if you don't like them ... well, I have others.
Groucho Marx 1895-1977

I also have mine, and if you don't like them ... tough, live with it.
Chris S 2017

I would like to record my thanks to Matt and the team for their dedication to the project. I know pretty much what goes on behind the scenes to keep Seti@Home up and running, which just recently came to the fore. There will always be 1/2 a dozen or so who want to have a moan, but those of us in the majority sincerely appreciate being kept in the loop, in the best way that they can.